Engineering

Roberto Adamson, an aspiring technology leader who aims to create AI-driven convenience and efficiency for peoples’ homes and workplaces, will begin the next stage of his professional journey at one of the world’s preeminent STEM universities.  Named the “Outstanding Senior” for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adamson will move to Switzerland this fall to pursue a master’s degree in electrical engineering at ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) Zurich, where he will specialize in control systems and artificial intelligence. “What intrigues me about...

Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials seized on contact tracing as the most effective way to anticipate the virus’s migration from the initial, densely populated hot spots and try to curb its spread. Months later, infections were nonetheless recorded in similar patterns in nearly every region of the country, both urban and rural.  A team of environmental engineers, alerted by the unusual wealth of data published regularly by county health agencies throughout the pandemic, began researching new methods to describe what was happening on the ground in a way that does not...

NJIT alumna Dayrene Martinez, who earned her electrical engineering degree in 2018, recently published a textbook of Python computer programming after mastering the language as a systems engineer for defense contractor Raytheon. Martinez co-authored the 420-page book, Applied computational thinking with Python: Design algorithmic solutions for complex and challenging real-world problems, with Sofía De Jesús. They met through a professional organization called Latinas in STEM Foundation. "This book is written by two Latina women in STEM which is something you don't see too often," Martinez...

There is no sustainable cure at present for osteoarthritis, the most common chronic musculoskeletal disorder of the joints. And while joint replacements are successful treatments for older patients with already reduced mobility, they hold less promise for younger patients, with failure in the long-term nearly guaranteed. Biomaterial engineers propose another solution: restoring the damaged tissue itself. “The gap between supply and demand for transplantable tissues and organs is continuously increasing,” says Murat Guvendiren, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering...